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Weekend Duckspiracy Open Insurrection

A crowd of crazed ducks was spotted gathering their numbers to storm the Texas Capitol and attempt to put an end to the Deep Flock nonsense going on within.

But fear not, there were some members of the mob that seemed a bit “off”.

These guys were clearly not part of the rest of the flock. They were interlopers, bent on derailing the movement and provide information to their leaders about the nefarious activities of the others and to point out the leaders of the flock.

Namely these guys. Notice the unusual headwear and plumage. They’re just looking for trouble.


Troubled onlookers observed the goings on with a mix of concern, wonder, and pity.

 

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95 responses to “Weekend Duckspiracy Open Insurrection”

  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Spy Duck Insurrection, I love it. 😉

    SO it’s the weekend! Whatchal’ Doing? It’s still hot here we’re getting some of the high pressure that has terrorized y’all for a while. The say we might get a little rain late today but I’m not holding my breath.

    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    For those of you that remember Lee from Down Under, she posted an 80’s picture of her and husband Randall when they lived at Coolum Beach QLD, Australia. They were feasting on Mud Crabs they caught in Weyba Creek. FWIW; I bet those big crab claws have lots of meat.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Bones, GJT, we’re dying here bring the jumper cables STAT!!! 😀

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I peeled myself out of the bed about 30 minutes ago to let Sarah out of jail so she could relieve herself.  She ate, drank water, then outside again for another round of THE ZOOMIES.

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Spotted over yonder, Mercury Black Power

    What 375HP looked like in 1970! So many incredible stories about outboard racing encapsulated in this photo One is the transition from the mercury racing elephant ear to the cleaver propeller, which has forever changed the speed game for everyone.

    FWIW; These are Keikhaefer Racing engines, you can tell by the 1-1 Gr lower units and the huge open exhaust above the cavitation plates.

    Those were the days. My Box Stock 115 HP (130 @ powerhead) Mercury in-line 6 would push my 16′ Glastron CV16 to 62 MPH with a 26″ elephant ear prop and a manual Jack Plate, running 26″ of transom height. It wasn’t a “Fast Boat” but it did outrun a lot of “Fast Boats” especially those pesky 70 MPH Bass Boats.  😉

    Disclaimer; This was in the 80’s before the Bass Boats actually managed 70-80 MPH. A few will even do 90 now.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    America – the only country in the world that hates its own women’s soccer team and always roots for their opponents…

    Most members of the US women’s soccer team stayed silent during the national anthem before its World Cup opener Friday against newcomers Vietnam — who passionately belted their nation’s tune.

    The majority of the reigning women’s World Cup champion team stared stoically ahead as the “Star Spangled Banner” blasted across New Zealand’s Eden Park arena.

    Only five of the 11 players who stood on the field for the anthem — with young, aspiring players standing before them — placed their hands over their hearts, while their six teammates kept their digits clasped behind their backs, video shows.

    Only three USWNT players — Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher and Lindsey Horan — sang along with the hundreds of American supporters watching in the stands.

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #6

    Well great, another sport I’ll need to boycott. Oh wait….I never liked kickball to begin with.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    James Garfield is the only sitting member of the US House of Representatives to be elected president of the United States in American history.

    The Washington Post once referred to Garfield as “the best president we never had,” a title I think belongs to William Henry Harrison. President Garfield reveals in clear detail the important difference between the terms of our two shortest-tenured presidents. In over 600 pages, Goodyear illustrates the life of a shrewd member of the House, the only one to ever go from the lower chamber to the White House, revealing how he played the game of politics and succeeded in what he believed were his most important tasks at hand. Although he did not live to see the results, as his life in the White House was cut tragically short by a lunatic in search of a job, the public did reap what he had sown and was better for it.

    plus,

    Goodyear meticulously tells the tale of Garfield’s rise from pulling mules on canal boats to holding the most prestigious post in the United States, charting his path to becoming “a radical” opposed to the institution of slavery who later “unified” a splintering party. He also details ways that the future president supported black Americans coming into the political and social fold with equal footing, something well recognized at the time of his death. Goodyear’s epilogue elegantly details the creation of the touching monument to the slain president built by the buffalo soldiers in Arizona, which still stands today — a fitting tribute to his success implementing “radical” policies.

    This sounds like an excellent book, especially if you enjoy biographies like I do.

    Here is Wikipedia’s description of President Garfield’s death.

    On July 2, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed and delusional office seeker, shot Garfield at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington. The wound was not immediately fatal, but managed to kill Garfield on September 19, 1881, due to infection caused by his doctors’ unsanitary methods. Due to his brief tenure in office, historians tend to rank Garfield as a below-average president, though he has earned praise for anti-corruption and pro–civil rights stances.

    President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier by C.W. Goodyear

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    James Garfield trivia:

    He was a Civil War hero and ended his brief career as a Brigadier General.

    He was the first left-handed American president.

    Garfield was the poorest man to ever hold the nation’s highest office.

  10. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I stayed up late working on the first Pensum for my Latin Class, Capitulum VI.  Hubby and I have been visiting, discussing car shows and this afternoon’s cable tech visit.  I have plans to water/harvest, try to nip to pieces a branch that feel from a backyard tree and is probably now dry enough for me to break apart and haul (most of it) off.  I also want to make some sauces for freezing and future freeze drying.  I found a book of keto recipes, so I want to make big batches.

    I also started some chicken stock yesterday, and it smells delicious.  I may can it later, or I may let it cook until tomorrow to get all those minerals and good stuff out of the bones and veggies.

  11. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lovely Daughter has a baby shower scheduled for early October.  Eldest Sis, et al, are also being invited.  I’m thinking about looking into using some of my points to make it a long weekend.  Hubby said there’s some place in the Dallas area that has an arcade with REAL pinball machines.

    I do love my pinball.  When I was in college, I spent many hours in the basement of the Memorial Student Center.  There was an arcade there next to the bowling alley and snack bar.  It was full of pinball machines, which started to get phased out my senior year as they installed computer games.  I’ve never been a fan of computer games, but but give me those buzzers and bells, and let me flip those silver balls from bumper to bumper….nirvana.  My favorite machine allowed me to play three balls if I was skilled enough to trap them and hit the right combination of pins.  Loved that machine.

    So, maybe I can find some things my sisters and I could enjoy, and I can make some time to get some real pinball in before coming back home.

    There’s also a military marching band contest…I think some time in November.  That’s another trip I’ve been meaning to make.  I love a good military marching band.  I think those are held up in the Longview area.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Stories like this are baffling to me.

    Did Fox think this would never be discovered ?  Are they incompetent or do they think their employees and viewers are stupid ?

    Fox News’ viewership has historically leaned right and favored Republican causes. While the company wears a conservative face on air, it appears that behind closed doors, Fox is willing to lean left or in whatever other direction the wind is blowing.

    Insiders have revealed to Blaze Media that Fox will subsidize some of the very activist groups that despise and seek the ruin of the network’s viewers, evidencing a “complete disregard and hatred” for its core audience.

    and,

    While on its face, this appears to be little more than an attempt at corporate beneficence, the company is willing to match donations to the Satanic Temple, the Trevor Project, Planned Parenthood (and local Planned Parenthood branches), and the Southern Poverty Law Center – radical leftist groups antipathetic to conservatives and the values they hold most dear.

  13. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    After my previous two posts, I guess it’s no surprise that my favorite marching band routine was set to the theme from “Tommy”.  I’ll have to see if I can find the link. The video quality isn’t the best, but man, I loved that circle drill!  Gave me goosebumps every time I marched it.

  14. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, y’all! Brutal heat, slight chance of a little precip. Think I’ll just go back to bed.

  15. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Found the link to my favorite marching band contest performance.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Houston’s own celebrity lawprof, Josh Blackman, received a letter in response to his alarming post about the dramatic dumbing down of bar exams for new lawyers.  The writer is a long time certified Bar Examiner (exam writer and proctor) from an unidentified state.  His state’s Supreme Court will vote on adopting this NextGen Bar Exam (UBE).

    To that, I asked if the test shouldn’t be an open book test or if we shouldn’t just revert to diploma privileges.  What is the purpose of a test, if it does not require its takers to demonstrate mastery of the subject matter?  The only response was that only minimal competence is required.  But the couldn’t define what that was, except to say minimal competence is minimal competence.

    In my view, the UBE, and the *** Supreme Court through its adoption, dropped the standard of “minimal competence” to an alarming level.  I could not, in good conscience, continue to serve and resigned.  The NextGen Bar Exam represents the complete abandonment of competence as a standard.  I sincerely hope that the *** Supreme Court does not adopt it.  Unfortunately, they will probably blindly defer to the “experts” at the NCBE. When the question of adopting the UBE came up, I opposed it because it represented the elimination of the requirement that newly licensed lawyers in *** begin with a base level of understanding of *** law.  The Board and the NCBE representative explained that memorization of basic legal principles was no longer necessary because, in practice, lawyers look things up in a book or on Westlaw anyway.

    Of course, why teach math in school when we can just hand a calculator to each student ?

    Why teach writing to students when they have spell/grammar check and artificial intelligence to write for them ?  Hand them a free dictionary !

    Hire Old Lawyers !

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    ZLOCHEVSKY’S DOG ☙ Saturday, July 22, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Roundup:

    Welcome to the Weekend Edition, and good morning, C&C! After following the recommended protocol yesterday, I was back to feeling 90% normal by dinnertime. Now I’m just a little sleep-deprived, and grateful for all the well-wished. So I’m back in the saddle, and your roundup this morning includes: Major moves in the Biden Bribery case as Republicans release unredacted FBI witness form;  Jamie Foxx posts his first post-incident proof of life video and proves somebody murdered the paparazzi; Congress plans its first big public UFO disclosure hearing to “get to the bottom” of things; Twitter’s Community Notes feature is working properly; another heartrending child de-transitioning story; and Governor DeSantis announces an official investigation into a woke beer company.

    News:

    Yesterday, Fox News ran a story headlined, “Five Most Significant Allegations Against the Bidens in FBI FD-1023 Form.” The sub-headline explained, “Sen. Chuck Grassley made public an unclassified version of the FD-1023 containing the bribery allegations.”

    On Thursday, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), 89, released a nearly completely unredacted version of the FBI’s previously ultra-top-secret FD-1023 witness form, which described how Burisma founder and Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky paid $5,000,000 each to then-Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, as a bribe to get Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired.

    Following are details from the report of the Biden shenanigans. Bidenagins?

    The rest of the list is as serious a catalogue of damning evidence as it ever gets, and we haven’t even seen all of the evidence yet. More is expected to be released in hearings this week.  But in spite of how bad things are looking, corporate media has been completely silent about this story. Not one single word about the unredacted 1023 form graced the websites of the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Times, or the Washington Post.

    It’s almost like the Biden Administration has complete control over corporate media or something.

    Compare the treatment of the Bidens (or the non-treatment) and what’s happening to Trump.

    Actually, the Biden Bribery case seems to be more like Schroedinger’s Cat than Zlochevsky’s dog, because corporate media seems to think it only exists if someone becomes aware of it.

    You can read the four-page FBI form for yourself here, and you probably should: https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1682083276633313280

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I recently watched the film,  Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre (2023)

    It’s kind of a hybrid of Mission: Impossible and James Bond. And it’s pretty funny, too.

    It stars Jason Statham, who is better than any of the sorry, post-Sean Connery-Bond’s that we’ve suffered over the years.

    He’s sort of a British Bruce Willis – except he doesn’t get the crap beat out of him ten times per movie. I’ve long been a fan of his.

    Recommended.

  19. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Childers goes on to remark that Jamie Foxx appears to be making a recovery from his mystery illness  – but wonders where the papparizzi were?

    Then the discussion of the Dems trying to censor RFK during his testimony – about censorship.

    The irony is so thick it could be cut with a chain saw.

    Specifically, on Thursday Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) moved to shift the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing out of public session into private executive session “because Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly made despicable anti-Semitic and anti-Asian comments as recently as last week.”

    So he shouldn’t be allowed to talk!

    Schultz was referring to RFK’s private comment at a fundraising dinner last week that some discrete ethnic groups appear to be immune to serious covid injuries, including the Chinese, Ashkenazi jews, and the Amish. Loosely speaking, those groups’ ACE2 receptors are incompatible with spike protein, unlike in European caucasians and African Americans, who are the most susceptible. Kennedy didn’t just make it up, I was able to find a half-dozen studies concluding the same, and other studies showing worse covid outcomes for caucasians and black people.

    /snip

    …Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) successfully moved to table Schultz’s motion, and then Kennedy testified about censorship — and not about covid being an ethnic bioweapon.

    After Kennedy began speaking, he held up a letter signed by 102 Democrats, including Wasserman Schultz, which ironically demanded the Republicans disinvite Kennedy from testifying at the censorship hearing at all.  “This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address. This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing,” Kennedy correctly and ironically pointed out.

    During his remarks, RFK explained, “They had to make up a new term to censor people like me: mal-information… mal-information is information that is true but is inconvenient to the government.”

    https://twitter.com/alx/status/1682031762912997387

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From The Library of Celaeno, Your Saturday Afternoon Wildlife Essay:

    We live in interesting times in many ways, and this is as true of the animal world as it is with humans. Zoologists have been researching for the last decade or so the emergence of an creature hitherto undocumented by science but now confirmed to exist. The eastern coyote (Canis Iatrans Var) is, as the name implies, endemic to the eastern parts of North America, though it has been spreading west of the Mississippi as well.  They range as far north as the Canadian tundra and as far south as subtropical Florida, living in prairies, forests, swamps, suburbs, and even cities.  Though not commonly seen, they are everywhere, and the story of the eastern coyote is interesting, especially considering they are not, strictly speaking, coyotes.

    and this,

    Consider the wolf.  All species of American wolves are pack hunters of large prey.  They are truly wild creatures, apex predators with a ruthless hierarchy that has become a descriptive model among manosphere writers.  They live far from humans if they can help it, for while men are weak as individuals, in numbers they own the land, and the wolf is nothing if not a respecter of dominance.  Nonetheless, they haunt the edges of settled places, eyes glowing in the night, crouching in stillness, breathing steam into the snow as they await a stray calf or careless child to wander too far from hearth and walls.  In ancient times men lived a life like theirs; they were rivals, then comrades.  Then men took their young and changed them, made them creatures of hearth and walls like them, and taught them to forget the chase and the open sky.  They became the pets of men as men became the pets of grain.  Now men kill wolves, in the Old World as in the New.

    Here is how the Smithsonian describes them:

    People living in Eastern Canada and U.S. are probably familiar with the smart, adaptable wild canine that lives in their forests, neighborhood parks and even cities. What they may not know is that eastern coyotes aren’t true coyotes at all. They might better be known as hybrids, or coywolves.

  21. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Twitter news:

    One of the best things Elon Musk did after buying Twitter was to create the “Community Notes” feature, whereby approved volunteer editors who must first prove they are reasonably fair, can add “notes” to tweets, and then vote the notes up or down. After enough favorable votes, Twitter displays a crowdsourced “fact check,” with the results frequently being either hilarious, or deeply embarrassing to the original author.

    For example, this week silly, woke social media gadfly Harry Sisson tried lying about a recent Nebraska criminal case, to make it appear evil conservatives were locking up innocent girls for accessing health care. The community was not kind:

    ***

    Next up is a sad story about detransitioning.  You know, “I was a confused teenager and the alphabet folks talked me into destroying my body, but I want it back now.”  I think Mr. C. has a good suggestion:

    I’d like to modestly propose that any doctor providing children ‘safe and effective’ affirming treatments should be first required to undergo the exact same treatments themselves. I mean, it’s important that the doctors can relate to what the children are going through. Since all these treatments are — allegedly — reversible, the doctors can also have the reverse treatment later, to be consistent with whatever they think their gender is.

    Who’s with me?

  22. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Finally, yesterday Governor DeSantis announced that the State of Florida, which is a significant investor in beer giant Anheuser-Busch, will now investigate the woke corporation for mismanagement that breached the company’s duties to shareholders and injured the state’s investment portfolio.

    Go woke, go broke.  AB’s financial woes just seem to snowball.

  23. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    It’s almost like the Biden Administration has complete control over corporate media or something.

    When it comes to the Kenyan III administration and the Kenyan run prop media then the KRM ALWAYS uses this rule …

    if it doesn’t fit they must omit.

    same rule they used during Kenyan I and II.

  24. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

      It’s almost like the Biden Administration has complete control over corporate media or something.

    just like in the prior Kenyan administrations you get the same rule applied during the Kenyan’s third term from the mr potato head media.

    if it doesn’t fit they must omit.

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    We can’t quite get over our astounding rainfall from yesterday’s umm, afternoon “shower” that left us with 1/100th inch of rain that dried up by evening on the concrete and hopefully was slurped up by the green stuff on the ground.  One small slurp would seem to have been enough to take care of all of it.  Rain is again forecast for today….

    #22 Tedtam,

    What a hoot that Florida led by Governor DeSantis is filing suit against A-B for mismanagement of duties to company shareholders, as the State of Florida holds A-B stock as an investment.  Could be that making an “example” of A-B’s insanity serves as a warning to other companies that are toying with trying something similar.  Florida might ought to institute a Dingbat of the Year Award for such an occasion.

  26. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Quick Drive-By

    Texpat @ 9:54, I heard that yesterday on Glenn Beck’s show of all things. Did you know he was still on the air ANYWHERE? He had a lady, (didn’t catch her name) that had worked for Fox and she had three friends that still work there and they showed her the corporate donation/matching pages on-line. She couldn’t believe it, that Fox sold out to the virtue signalers. They also said that right after Tucker was canned management sent out a memo telling employees to lay off Dylan Mulvaney.

    BTW; I don’t know exactly what was in your link since I don’t have time to check it out but I’ll be sure to look later.

  27. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We’re getting a little rain and some thunder boomers,…keeping fingers crossed. 😉

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You could see this coming.

    Canada killing off the mentally ill.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Sis-in-law has returned to San Angelo after a month in Australia.

    Where the lows were in the upper 20’s.

  30. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I noticed last night that I was on my last bag of “wildlife mix” that I put out for daytime and nighttime critters. It is universally liked by all the yard critters I feed — except for Billy Cat, of course. Corn and peanuts are not on his menu.

    I normally get all my critter chow at Kroger, but the years of recent covid experience advises me that Kroger’s pet food shelves are often shopped clean on the weekends. So today I went to the PetSmart and stocked up on bird seed, a good price on Friskies canned cat food, and picked up a new cardboard scratcher. I opened the catnip packet that came with the scratcher, so the kitties all got some prime exercise. They are all flaked out on the floor now.

  31. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Noted swimming chest and transmission now claims to be part of the “transmission wing” of antifa, the fascistic “anti-fascist” terrorist criminal confederation.   I think he called it “transtifa”.

    Whatever.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Pyro 1335:  (cue John Geilgud voice):  How Revolting!

  33. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Yeah, baby.

    Soak it in.

  34. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    $90 million down the chute and people’s hopes and dreams ruined.

    I had not heard this story until today.

    When Craftsman announced a state of the art manufacturing plant in Texas, the company said it would ‘revitalize’ and ‘bring back their American manufacturing heritage’.

    The $90 million dollar plant in Forth Worth would employ 500 full-time employees as well as an army of state of the art machines to churn out American made tools manufactured with domestic steel.

    Use of the high-tech robots for much of the manufacturing would lower production costs to a level normally seen in China, it was even claimed.

    But the whole process became nothing but a headache for Craftsman – owned by Stanley Black & Decker – when company after the automated system failed and the number of tools being churned out dwindled.

    The factory ended up churning out so few tools that they’ve become a collector’s item on eBay.

    In March of this year, just three and a half years after breaking ground on the 45,000 square foot factory, the company announced it was closing the plant.

    It had been a high profile example of a drive amongst U.S. manufacturers to bring offshore plants back on American soil and use American steel, which had been fueled by government incentives.

    Speechless.

  35. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We got .49″ of rain this afternoon mostly around 12:30 but it’s still drizzly so maybe we’ll get a little more. Rumor has it that our best chance is about 10 PM. The good news is that it really cooled things off, I saw 77 degrees on the old truck thermometer when I was driving back from Troy.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Regarding the madness Canada finds itself in with assisted deaths amongst the wacky/frightening turn of reducing the value of human life, it should not be a surprise that the province of Alberta wants to leave Canada and become the 51st State of the US.  Perhaps some other western provinces of like Saskatchewan and Manitoba might also like to leave Canada and join us.  Western Canada is blessed with lots of oil… 🙂

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    .

    100 Rifles, perhaps the worst Western ever made.

    Starring:

    Raquel Welch
    Jim Brown
    Burt Reynolds
    Fernando Lamas (not pictured)

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    30 Texpat

    Stanley, huh?

    You know that Stanley PowerLock 25 foot tape you bought when you were here last?

    POS only locks about 1/3 of the time. Virtually useless.

    What brand is worth a damn, anymore?

     

  39. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Re: #34

    Shannon’s Axiom #2

    The bigger the organization, the dumber they are.

    (And the more inferior the product or service they provide.)

     

  40. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Comcast tech just left.  It seems the squirrels thought our cable line was edible.

    I thanked him for doing the job he does, facing heat and wasps on this trip.  I sent him on his way with a big cup of mostly ice and water.  He has water in his truck, so he can reload the cup when he guzzles the water down.

  41. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    What ticks me off is that I got a call from Comcast/Xfinity this morning: “It seems your problem may have been fixed.  Do you still need a technician to come out?”

    No way I was going to say our system was working.  Even if it was working, we don’t know when it was going to go out again.  I really didn’t want to navigate their “do it yourself” phone menu system again.

  42. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I haven’t watched it yet, but Tucker explains the Great Reset.

  43. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The more I hear this guy, the more I like him.

    Hardship happens.  Victimhood is a choice.

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Experts are baffled.  More guns -> less violence?!

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian researchers say the number of violent deaths last year reached the lowest level in more than a decade, puzzling some experts because there has been an explosion of firearms circulating in the country in recent years.

    About 47,500 people were slain in Latin America’s largest nation in 2022, said a report Thursday by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety, an independent group that tracks crimes. Its statistics are widely used as a benchmark because there are no official statistics on a national level.

    While the number of killings in 2022 was down 2.4% from the previous year, it remained roughly even with levels recorded since 2019. The last time Brazil had less violent deaths was in 2011, with 47,215 killings.

    The fall in homicides has left many public security experts somewhat puzzled, as it has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the number of firearms held by Brazilians. Some studies have suggested that more guns circulating among the population lead to more homicides.

    Brazil is still a violent place, and there are several theories about why the homicide level has dropped, but the “experts” thought that more guns would automatically mean a spike in homicide rates.

  45. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have been eating three meals a day and stay hungry all the time since I left the hospital 30 days ago.  I bought the last bucket of Amish peaches at the Maywood Market that are so good they remind me of prime Stonewall Texas peaches.  I peeled and cut them all yesterday and ate a big bowl with vanilla ice cream last night.  I figured I had gained 4 or 5 pounds during the week.  I weighed myself straight out of the shower this morning and I’m down another 5 lbs. to 180.  All this healthy living is gonna kill me.

  46. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    More info and warnings on the commercial real estate crisis.

    The ripples will be felt far and wide. I plan to continue canning and prepping.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Another actor in 100 Rifles is Eric Braeden.

    Old timers will recognize him as the Nazi in the Rat Patrol television series. He played the stereotypical German soldier in many movies.

    But he has spent the last 43 years playing the main villain on the soap opera The Young And The Restless.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    42 Tedtam

    I was just preparing to post a comment with that very article.  I know I’ve been harping on this subject for a long time.  Like the guy who keeps predicting a flood, sooner or later, he’s going to be right…my time has come.

    The dumpster fire right now is downtown Baltimore.  These are first class, beautiful commercial properties.

    July 18th, 2023

    Following the failures of several regional banks earlier this year, we’ve been closely monitoring the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, noticing increasing risks in the office space market. CRE lending standards have tightened considerably in response to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes over the past sixteen months to combat inflation. Furthermore, depressed office-badge swipes and other occupancy metrics indicate a downshift in demand for office space.

    The latest alarm bell of sliding CRE prices in downtown areas across major US cities is the sale of an office tower at One South Street in downtown Baltimore. The 30-story building was sold in June for $24 million, a 63.6% discount versus the tower’s 2015 sale of $66 million, according to The Baltimore Sun.

    Opened in 1992, the tower has 479,000 square feet and is the first sale of its kind in the post-pandemic era. The Sun confirmed that Virginia-based American Real Estate Partners sold the building in a short sale to New York-based BHN Associates.

    July 21st, 2023

    And one day later, a new report surfaced via the Baltimore Business Journal that indicated another office tower had been panic dumped at a 69% discount.

    1 E. Pratt St. has sold for $55.1 million less than it last traded for — marking the second office tower in Baltimore’s central business district to change hands this summer at a steep discount as the troubled local office market resets.

    MCB Real Estate shelled out $25 million for the 10-story office and retail development at Pratt and Light streets, according to three sources familiar with the transaction that is not yet recorded in state property records. The tower last sold in March 2018 to a subsidiary of Banyan Street Capital for $80.1 million, records show. -Baltimore Business Journal

    That is $98,000,000 blown up in smoke.  The city of Baltimore just took a body blow to the tax base and they have no way to recover other than to go begging to Joe Biden and then the national debt keeps climbing and inflation rages on.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

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    Super Dave

    An internet search indicates that Glenn Beck is on KLIF 570 in Houston.

    I assume he still heads up something called Blaze Media:

    Blaze Media engages over 64 million people each month through our various media assets, which include Blaze News, BlazeTV, Blaze Live, Blaze Radio, Blaze Podcasts, and our highly engaged social media channels.

    I haven’t heard him in years. Way back when, I decided he was a man with a good heart with tendencies toward mental instability.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ms Welch was arguably at her most beautiful when the film was made in 1966. She was born a couple of weeks before Fay in September of 1940.

    Note: The hot, interracial make-out scene between Jim Brown and Welch was the first of its kind in mainstream film history.

  51. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The bigger the organization, the dumber they are.

    ”None of us is as stupid as all of us.”

  52. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Shannon I used to listen to Glenn Beck in Houston and I liked him until he basically lost his mind and went off the deep end. Shortly afterwards he was no longer in the Houston market and I assumed he wasn’t on any terrestrial stations just On-line. When I retired and came back here I found out that he’s on in the mornings before Rush’s show. FWIW; We have exactly one talk radio station (103.9) so there is a lot of time I can’t listen to it. Hannity in the afternoon and some fake Rednecks in the morning. Thank Gawd for Sat Radio.

  53. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Bonecrusher, you will be pleased about this.  You’ve quoted him often over the years.

    After spending a lifetime as a Democrat, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind has officially joined the Republican Party, citing the radicalism and anti-Semitism growing ever worse worse in his former party.

    Hikind, the 73-year-old founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, was first elected to the NYS Assembly in 1982 and went on to serve as majority whip. He won his last election in 2014 against Republican Nachman Caller in a landslide.

    In a video posted to his Twitter page this week featuring Hikind and his wife, Shani Hikind, the lawmaker of 36 years noted that not only was he a lifelong Democrat, but his parents and family had been as well.

    “But that’s over. That’s finished,” Hikind announced Thursday. “I have decided to register as a Republican.”

    Dov Hikind is a very nice and honorable man.

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Glenn Beck left Houston and landed in Dallas where he started producing all kinds of online content, built all kinds of expensive studios and had a large staff and payroll.  I believe the 2009-10 economic disaster finally took its toll and he hit some rough times, but somehow managed to survive and rebuild in a less expensive and flashy way.  I know Mark Levin has or had some kind of relationship with Beck for a while.  I’m not sure if that exists anymore.

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I’ll never forget back when Glenn Beck was on KSEV in Houston and he leaned on Dan Patrick to let Pat Gray have his own show late at night.  Gray also had his own website at the time and had posted some stupid, cockeyed conspiracy crap about some political subject.  David Jennings and I lit up his website with comments challenging his assertions and Pat Gray got all huffy and his feelings hurt.  He contacted Beck who contacted Dan Patrick who called David Benzion at some godforsaken hour of the morning to ask why Texpat and Big Jolly were publicly insulting Pat Gray.

    Unfortunately, under pressure from Benzion, Jennings and I had to offer apologies of sorts.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Mom deer and her child are back in the front pasture grazing.  Little one is now grazing well and has grown some but still sticks close to Mom.  Guessing that Mom is still nursing as she keeps track of where baby is.  They seem to pretty much ignore us when we go down the driveway to get the mail or the morning newspaper.  Spouse stops to look for them. Sometimes they are both resting on the ground and mostly visible by their ears poking up through the grass.  They are kind of distant pets.  🙂

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Thank God for Italy.

    The Miss Italy pageant has banned transgender contestants from taking part in the beauty contest.

    “Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,” Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani said, according to TND. “Miss Italia, on the other hand, will not jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism.”

    “Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women,” Mirigliani said during an interview with Radio Cusano earlier this month.

     

  58. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #48 TP: That is good news indeed and may it be an harbinger of many more people waking up from their wokeness and leaving the party of M-lech.  Let the great separation continue.

  59. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I tried a recipe from my keto sauces cookbook – General Tso’s Sauce.  It turned out a bit tangier than I’d like, so I think the next time I’ll cut back on the vinegar and slightly increase the Swerve.

    I purchased some molds for candy and/or soap making.  The leftover sauce is in the freezer in the molds, so I can pull out only what I need later on.  If I decide to do an Elsa run before I use it all, I’ll put it through a FD process.

    Hubby really liked it.

    So, the time after loading the freezer with Keto General sauce was spent slicing up the remaining colored bells I had purchased and loading them into Fred.

  60. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about the Tri Level Pacemaker 10X50 Mobile Home. State of the art 1959. 😉

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Just before midnight we got a lazy, 15 minute pop-up shower.

    Pretty sure it turned to steam when it hit the hot ground.

    🙂

  62. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Assuming the “Monday” thread is a mistake I’ll just say it’s Sunday!

    Mornin’ Gang

  63. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Just before midnight we got a lazy, 15 minute pop-up shower.

    Pretty sure it turned to steam when it hit the hot ground.

    Just be thankful for any rain that you can get. I mentioned that we got .49″ yesterday and overnight we added .o9″ for a total of .58″. The good news is that all afternoon it was overcast and sorta’ drizzly so it stayed cool outside. Wife worked on her flower beds until about 6:30 PM.

  64. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; Shannon and Texpat thanks for finding the Zebco story it was great and I had no idea that a explosive fracking company developed the Zebco Reel. They were real popular in south Alabama when I was little because they were cheap and anybody could use them. Of course the “Real” fishermen and those that THOUGHT they were fishermen would chastise you for using them, calling them junk. We have about a dozen here on the farm that my sister collected at estate sales over the years. A couple of summers ago I got out 4 of the 33’s and 1 404, cleaned them up and put new line on them. I also bought a couple more 33’s, one for the wife and a spare. We keep them on hand for any guests that want to fish and we like to have extra’s (spares). I of course use my old 70’s Shakespeare 300 built back when they still used brass gears.

    FWIW; We have a couple of fine old Penn 500 salt water reels that sister found and several Wally World open face and bait casting reels that I’ve not fooled with.

  65. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well this will be a fine mess now that Super Dave done commented on the Monday thread on Sunday when the real Monday rolls around we’ll already have a comment and the whole dang earth will be thrown off it’s axis. We might just esplode or something.

  66. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Sorry guys.  Working on Latin last night, it was close to midnight…and I had a brain fart moment and thought yesterday was Sunday.

    Monday now sits in its rightful place.

  67. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    From Citizen Free Press:  The Justin/Fidel Father Son Photo Collage

    Image

    Justin’s mother was a stupid communist infatuated with Fidel Castro and unencumbered with propriety or concerns about humiliating her husband by cuckolding him.  Margaret and her husband, Pierre, spent plenty of time with Fidel on his private estates precisely during the time Justin would have been conceived.

    Margaret Trudeau is a classic member of the 20th Century Narcissists Hall of Fame.

     

  68. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #60 GJT, leave it to ole Dave to royally screw things up.  😀

    I figger it’ll take a good couple of weeks before the Space Time Continuum falls back in sync but look at the bright side, it’ll be a real good time to get in touch with your home planet. 😉

  69. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #62 Texpat  BAWHAHAHAHA!!!!

    That’s downright funny. 😉

  70. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Do y’all remember John Anderson? His name came up recently and I had totally forgot that he ran as an independent in 1980 against Carter and Reagan. And since looking back is soo much easier than looking forward I guess I didn’t realize he was a typical milquetoast candidate.

    Proof?

    Right here; Diane Anderson said her father became disillusioned with the direction of the Republican Party and what he saw as a move to the far right.

    As in interesting Side Bar, Bret Baier was interviewing Manchin and that loser from Utah about the “No Lables” party and called it milquetoast and I thought dang he hit the nail on the head especially about Jon Huntsman.

    That said: I’m no fan of Bret Baier, the Fox News, Chris Wallace replacement. What a jerk.

     

  71. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Since Wagonburner lowered the bar on standards for Weekend photographic comments, against my better judgment, I am posting this really disgusting photo only to serve the public interest.

    Robert Francis O’Rourke and Barry Charles Laughton, Jr. alias Stacie Marie Laughton

    Associated Press reports:

    A former New Hampshire state lawmaker and the one-time partner of a woman charged with taking sexually explicit photos of children at the Massachusetts day care center where she worked has also been charged in the case, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

    Stacie Marie Laughton, 39, of Nashua, New Hampshire, is charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said in a statement.

    No defense attorney was listed for Laughton in court records. She will appear in court at a later date.

    Lindsay Groves, 38, of Hudson, New Hampshire, was charged last month with sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography for allegedly taking nude photos of children at Creative Minds Early Learning Center in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, and texting them to another person.

    Prosecutors said Tuesday that a preliminary forensic review of Groves’ cellphone allegedly revealed more than 10,000 text messages between Laughton and Groves. The texts allegedly included discussion about, and transfer of, explicit photographs that Groves had taken of children who appear to be about 3 to 5 years old.

    Groves remains in state custody in New Hampshire. An email seeking comment was left with her federal public defender.

    Notice the missing political party affiliation ?

    There is more here and a bonus shot of Eric Swallwell hanging out with the depraved tranny.  It’s quite a letdown from romancing Fang Fang in a hot sheet motel in Marina del Rey to making selfies with a New Hampshire pedophilic tranny.

     

  72. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning Hamsters,

    We seem to be off to a rather strange start this morning in Odd City perhaps somewhere in our Galaxy….

    All the calendars in our house say it is Sunday, July 23rd.  Beyond that everything else seems to be in free fall.  Definitely not boring. 🙂

  73. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Just now looking at the Wunderground 10-Day Forecast for Bellville, TX.

    It is gruesome.  There doesn’t seem to be any relief in sight from this heat wave and no rain either.

  74. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I guess it’s a good thing to get to The Couch so late that any discrepancies have already been worked out amongst y’all early risers…

     

  75. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I do like to work the Sunday sudoku before I venture forth from the well-named breakfast room– even breakfast waits on Sunday. Well, my breakfast does; not the cats. Even Billy Cat eats before I do.

     

  76. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just checked the small weather station for the back side of the house:  91 and 71% humidity.  Front side reads  90 and 71% humidity. Described as sunny, all those white clouds with patches of blue here and there.  Sprinkler system came on in the wee hours last night.  Most of the driveway in the front and the walkway from the front of the house are in the shade and just about totally dry.  Everything with dirt under it got wet at least briefly.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Mowed the shriveled weeds by 11am. My neighbor even joined in on his mower and helped me with some of it.

    Quite humid out there.

    Very refreshing is this bottle of pre-mixed Mimosa that the HEB wine guy talked me into to buying.

    closing my eyes, drinking a Mimosa, and dreaming that I am at Brennan’s for Sunday Brunch

  78. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I didn’t know that.

    Lehman Brothers

    Lehman Brothers, a former Fortune 500 global financial services firm, was founded in 1850 in Montgomery Alabama. Henry Lehman, the first of the Lehman brothers to immigrate to the United States, arrived in Mobile in 1844 from Rimpar, Bavaria. Soon after his arrival, he loaded up a wagon with merchandise and spent the next year plying his goods along the Alabama River in exchange for cotton. Sometime in 1846 or 1847, he opened a dry goods store on Montgomery’s Commerce Street named “H. Lehman.” In 1847, his younger brother Emanuel joined him in Montgomery, and by the following year they were doing business as “H. Lehman and Brother” in a building on Court Square. When their younger brother Mayer arrived in 1850, they changed the name of the firm yet again to “Lehman Brothers.” (Henry Lehman died from yellow fever in 1855.) The Lehmans agreed to accept cotton from local planters in exchange for merchandise. This practice led the Lehmans to launch a separate business trading in cotton. Over the next several years, their cotton trading and brokerage business grew so much that in 1858 Emanuel Lehman opened an office in New York, which had become the nation’s commodity trading center. Shortly after the onset of the Civil War, Mayer Lehman teamed up with Montgomery cotton merchant John Wesley Durr in 1862 to form Lehman, Durr and Company. After the war, the Lehmans moved their headquarters from Montgomery to New York. Although the firm left Alabama, it continued to support the state during Reconstruction; Lehman Brothers was designated the state’s fiscal agent to help sell state bonds in 1867. The firm was also assigned to service the state’s debts, interest payments, and other obligations. In 1870, the Lehmans took the lead in establishing the New York Cotton Exchange, the first commodities futures trading venture. Emanuel Lehman was appointed to the first board of directors and served until 1884. Image shows the offices of Lehman, Durr and Co. in downtown Montgomery, ca. 1874. (Photograph courtesy Columbia University)

  79. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Nice story.

    The heroic Dallas couple who helped police arrest a most wanted fugitive got a huge surprise from a fellow citizen.

    When Cliff Freeman learned Crime Stoppers was not going to issue an award to the couple, who have six children, he knew something had to be done, Fox 4 reported Friday.

    Kenyatta and Briana Jordan were shocked when Freeman gave them a check and said, “What you guys did, put yourselves at risk and took a bad guy off the street — you are my heroes for that.”

    The moment Briana looked at the check, she said, “For $5,000, thank you so much.”

    When the couple saw reports about the suspect, Leonard Neal, who allegedly abducted a nine-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl, they gathered all the information they could so they would be ready in case he popped up in the area.

    The suspect is accused of sexually assaulting the little girl.

     

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Had a little storm pop up between Columbus and Sealy.

    All the action right now on the radar is south of I-10.

    Good luck Adee and Tedtam.

  81. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We’re back from a leisurely lunch at our favorite Mexican restaurant nearby.  We’re stuffed as usual and bringing a lot of it home for lunch tomorrow.  The restaurant La Cocina (The Kitchen) gives generous portions, so much so that folk considerably younger than we are also request a box to take the rest home.  It is not part of a restaurant chain, is locally owned, and located across the Brazos from Richmond on FM 359.

    The Chron arrived around 9 this morning, but I haven’t yet looked at more than headlines and the comics.  Will have to plow through it in search of something cheerful.

  82. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #75 Shannon,

    Yea, you got some rain.  Yes we are south of I-10. Nothing dark in the sky over that way yet

    “If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.”

  83. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I stayed after mass for a bit this morning.  First I had a nice conversation with some of my Latin class friends, then went back inside for some prayer time and adoration.  Came home and took a quick cruise around my garden – poor plants are looking pitiful. As I was giving them a drink I discovered caterpillars and butterfly eggs in my asparagus and scale all over my eggplant.

    As in yesterday, absolutely nothing.  Today, white pillowy things all. over.   Fortunately,  I purchased a big jug of Sevin a week or so ago, so I pulled it out and sprayed the eggplant.  I was able to disengage the caterpillars or cut them loose.   Let them try to crawl through the very crunchy grass.  Those blades are so dry they’ll probably dessicate those critters in about….5 minutes.

    So now, I need to jar up my chicken stock and do some canning.

     

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    According to the Journal, the US can’t sell the oil because the companies that would unload the oil are worried about Iranian retaliation in the Persian Gulf.

    “Companies with any exposure whatsoever in the Persian Gulf are literally afraid to do it,” a Houston-based energy executive involved in the matter told the paper.

    The executive said that several companies contacted about the oil declined to unload the cargo. After the US stole the Iranian oil shipment, Iran seized two tankers in the Persian Gulf, which was likely retaliation.

    Since then, the US has announced several measures to increase its military presence in the region to prevent more Iranian seizures in the Persian Gulf that it provoked in the first place.

    I’m perfectly willing to buy this 800,000 barrels of oil at a steep discount because I don’t care what the Iranian thugs think of me.  I guarantee you I can find some outfit to sell it to as well as the bridge financing to get the deal done.

    I suspect the real problem is the Biden morons don’t want to sell or are scared to do so.

    What this administration should really do is offload that Persian sweet crude in Texas and send it right into the salt dome storage facilities of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve that Biden so idiotically depleted.

  85. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    THUNDER!

  86. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #79 Texpat,

    Consider sending that info to several Republican members of Congress who will comprehend the problem. 🙂

    In terms of the Biden Bunch, we know they are hopelessly all in for socialism and have no clue about energy sources.  And many of them are only dimly aware they are alive.

  87. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    For once, I’m happy to have a dark cloud hanging over my head.

     

    Pa-dum-dum.

  88. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Just got up from a nap and was delighted to see we have 5/100 in the rain gauge.  Every drop counts.

  89. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    no rain

    /sad

  90. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Still darker to the south so maybe the rain has not ended.

    Spouse is out on the patio watering the potted plants that seem to be hanging in all right.  The semi-overcast makes that possible this time of evening.  I must go to the local nursery tomorrow to get rose fertilizer and other flowering plants fertilizer. I’ve been putting that off because of the daily heat, but it might be a bit cooler tomorrow morning.  This needing to stay inside in the AC is rather like being snowbound in your home in winter: safe but boring after a while.

  91. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    El Gordo found this airplane-in-trouble video and posted it on his FB page. I found it — I think the word is SPELL-BINDING — so here’s the link for those who like intense videos. (Use Skip Ads when needed…)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgpf5ktKVBc

  92. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    That slippery slope…

    Dutch Doctors Now Euthanizing Patients with Autism

    Several Dutch citizens who had autism or other intellectual disabilities have been euthanized by doctors in the Netherlands under the authority of the nation’s globalist government.

    In recent years, a number of Dutch patients have died by physician-assisted suicide after doctors determined their afflictions were untreatable obstacles to a normal life, researchers found.

    According to a Kingston University investigation of Dutch euthanasia cases, nearly 40 people who were identified as being autistic or intellectually disabled were legally euthanized in the Netherlands between 2012 and 2021.

    The UK study found that five people younger than 30 who were killed had cited autism as the sole or major reason for their decision to go through with euthanasia.

    With those cases, experts have questioned whether the law allowing doctors to kill suicidal patients via lethal injections has strayed too far from its initial intentions when passed in 2002.

    Gee, ya’ think?

    But it sure takes folks off the welfare roles.

  93. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Since my sister was coming for supper I decided that it was about time for some real tamales so I fixed refried/charro beans, Spanish rice, guacamole and steamed up some pork tamales. Half the tamales were imported from Fort Worth Texas and half were purchased locally from the wife of one of the guys that helped build my Pole Barn. Some kind of good eating right there.This is one of my wife and sister’s favorite meals.

  94. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, the sweet, sweet irony.

  95. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It just started raining again.   YES!

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